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It’s entirely possible that the people talking up agents also produced spaghetti code but don’t care because they are so much more “productive”. An interesting
by vitaflo 1y ago
It’s entirely possible that the people talking up agents also produced spaghetti code but don’t care because they are so much more “productive”.
An interesting thing about many of these types of posts is they never actually detail the tools they use and how they use them to achieve their results. It shouldn’t even be that hard for them to do, they could just have their agent do it for them.
- phkahler 1y ago>> It’s entirely possible that the people talking up agents also produced spaghetti code but don’t care because they are so much more “productive”. You may be right. The author of this one even says if you spend time prettying your code you should stop yak shaving. They apparently don't care about code quality.
- blibble 1y ago> You may be right. The author of this one even says if you spend time prettying your code you should stop yak shaving. They apparently don't care about code quality. brought to you by fly.io, where the corporate blog literally tells you to shove your concerns up your ass: > Cut me a little slack as I ask you to shove this concern up your ass.
- lumost 1y agoThe agent/model being used makes a huge difference. Cline with Claude 3.7 is ridiculously expensive but useful. Copilot is vaguely ok.
- galangalalgol 1y agoEven just doing the cut and paste thing for one shots, claude sonnet 4 writes good rust code, generally on the first try.